On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 04:29:01AM +0000, David Sainty wrote:
> [...]
> [An alternative approach is to just always drop to LBA48 if the request
> happens to pass by sector 0xfffffff and the drive reported as larger than
> 0xfffffff sectors.  My understanding is that the 32 bit addressing below
> 0x10000000 is purely there as a performance booster, not to resolve a
> compatibility issue.]

It is. Some controllers can't do LBA48 properly. Large drives on such
controllers currently work fine if limited to 128GB.

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